Hi Folks I am getting ready to renstall mandrake after getting this heap of junk pc working again. I am convinced i should be a beta tester, because if Phil can install it without breaking it, it must be a solid piece of programming :)
Anyway I was reading an interview, or an excerpt of one with Linus who said that with the 2.4.* kernals you REALLY needed twice as much swap space as you have RAM( as oppesed to before where they reccomended it but you could do with less). I have 320mb, so do i need 640MB swap? I am installing on a drive that only has 2500MB and that would be a big chunk, I had about 150MB, should i have more? Also I have trolled the howtos and the docs but dont seem to find what i need. Basically I am looking to install with as little space being used as possible. On my last attempt (apart from breaking the machine) I managed to get it down to about 900-1GIG by removing all the games and all the the windo managers except KDE which was quite good i thought. The problem is i could probably reduce it more if i knew which libs i needed. For example i usually install all the glibc files, because i dont know which does what and dont want to be missng somthing, same goes for perl, samba, and evey other think i need. How do you know exactly what you need? Is there a definative list somewhere? Do you need any of the dlevel files? My basic requirements is to have a fully bootable machine with x using KDE which i can install thinghs with no problem, so i onbviously need compilers, I am not one for games, I want to be able to write cd's using a GUI in X(wave using DAO), I want to be able to check email (8 differnt pop accounts) and read newsgroups (2 different accounts). Make webpages, and to upload them, once i get some network cards i want to network 2 pcs for internet sharing, and just generally enjoy trying out the new distro. If anyone can help point me in the right direction i would be grateful. TIA Phil Deane http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
